In this phase of lockdowns many students are preparing for their entrance or competition exams. Unacademy is India based E- learning firm. It was founded that it includes thousand of video tutorials with around 14,000 teachers along with 20 million online learners. The case of hacking and data breech has increase in these days. After Jio, Facebook here comes another case regarding security data breech that Unacademy which is an most popular E-learning platform has suffered from data breech over 22 million user record has exposed on dark web or we can say darknet.
As per Beeping Computer, The most of the account created by using corporate emails which includes users of companies such as Google, Facebook, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and more. In this case if users has use same password which they use for their corporate network then there will be chances that hackers can access in to corporate network too.
Hemesh Singh, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Unacademy has confirmed data breech and stated that only 11 million users are affected with this data breech and no sensitive information such as financial data or passwords were exposed.
On 3rd May 2020, the Cyble Intelligence Company discovered that that hackers has begun the selling of Unacademy users database containing 20 million user records for $2000. While advertising as 20 million the database actually consist of total 21,909,707 user records.
"We have been closely monitoring the situation and can confirm that basic information related to around 11 million learners has been compromised. However, we would like to assure our learners that no sensitive information such as financial data, location or passwords has been breached. We follow stringent encryption methods using the PBKDF2 algorithm with a SHA256 hash, making it highly implausible for anyone to access the learner passwords. We also follow an OTP based login system that provides an additional layer of security to our learners. We are doing a complete background check and will be addressing any potential security loophole to further our efforts of ensuring a robust security mechanism. Data security and privacy of our learners is of utmost importance to us and we will be in communication with our learners to keep them updated on the progress." statement by Hemesh Singh.
What Should Unacademy Users Do Now?
Now, the main question is what we can do in this situation. So, here you have to follow some tips so that you can make your account more secure.
1. If you are an Unacademy user it doesn't matter whether yo are learner or educator just change your password and keep your password strong.
2. If you are using your Unacademy passwords for other accounts then change that passwords too, because there may be chances that hackers can use your Unacademy password to login into different accounts.
3. User of Unacademy can get a phishing emails which pretending from Unacademy so be aware of those emails .
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